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clerk of the circuit court for the particular county where such
fine may accrue, or to the clerk of the criminal court of Balti-
more if such fine shall accrue in said city, and it shall be the
duty of the State's attorney for the several counties and for
the city of Baltimore to keep an account of said fines imposed
and to make a monthly report thereof to the clerk of the
circuit court for their respective counties or to said clerk of
the criminal court, as the case may be, and to see that said
fines are duly collected and paid over as aforesaid, and the
surplus, after paying all costs for prosecution in such cases,
shall be paid to the State comptroller for the use of the
oyster fund, with a statement of the fines imposed and costs
of the same; the justice of the peace or clerk of the court
which imposes said fine in any and every case shall, in writing,
inform the comptroller of the treasury of the fine, upon whom
laid and the amount of said fine, with date of same. Any one
who shall violate any provisions of this section shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof before
any judge or justice of the peace in this State shall be fined
not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than three hundred
dollars, in the discretion of the court or justice of the peace
before whom such person shall be tried, or be imprisoned in
the county jail for not less than one month nor more than six
months.

Dredging.

1894, ch. 380. sec. 18.

19. No steamer shall be used or employed in catching or
taking oysters in the waters of the State with scoop, dredge or
similar instrument, and no other boat shall be used in catching
oysters with scoop, dredge or similar instrument without first
having been licensed as hereinafter provided.

1894, ch. 380, sec. 19. 1900, ch. 380.

20. The comptroller of the treasury shall upon application
of any person who has been a resident of this State for twelve
consecutive months next preceding his application, issue a
license to such resident, and to no other person, to employ
such boat in taking or catching oysters with scoop, dredge or
similar instrument within the waters of the Chesapeake bay,
Potomac river and in Eastern bay, outside of a line drawn
from the southwest corner of First Kent Point to north end of
Poplar Island; provided, that nothing herein contained shall